Epilepsy Case Conference
2/9/2017
1-2 pm
Radiology Auditorium, Donner Building
Brian Litt, MD; Leah Blank, MD: HUP
Mark Fitzgerald, MD; Carlyn Patterson Gentile, MD: CHOP
Target Audience
This program has been designed for physicians, fellows, residents, physician assistants, medical students, professional nurses, advanced practice nurses, psychologists, and case workers in internal medicine, neurology, epilepsy, radiology, surgery and neurosurgery.
Series Educational Objectives
After completing this activity, participants should be able to:
· Review the best evidence available in support of the resective surgical option
· Review the best evidence available in support of non-resective surgical procedures
· Assess the medication therapy of patients and develop an alternate plan where safety, cost and efficacy support a change using a team-based approach
· Set up evidence based management of a patient with intractable epilepsy
· Review the best evidence available in support of the surgical option and specific procedures
Accreditation
Physicians: The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Nurses: Penn Medicine Nursing is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Approval # 124-3-H-15
Designation of Credit
Physicians: The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses: Nurse participants will be awarded 1.0 contact hour.
PAs: AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society. PAs may receive a maximum of 1 Category 1 credits for completing this activity.
Approved for (PSRM) patient safety/risk management designation
Acknowledgement of Commercial Support* NONE
For more information, please contact
Ruth Krieger
215-746-4850
Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships and Unapproved Uses of Products
It is policy at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Nursing Education, Innovation and Professional Development for individuals who are in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose to the learners all relevant financial relationships that they have with any commercial interest that provide products or services that may be relevant to the content of this continuing education activity. For this purpose we consider relationships of the person involved to include financial relationships of a spouse or partner.
The intent of this policy is to ensure that Penn CME/CNE certified activities promote quality and safety, are effective in improving medical practice, are based on valid content, and are independent of control from commercial interests and free of commercial bias. Peer review of all content was conducted for all faculty presentations whose disclosure information was found to contain relationships that created a conflict of interest relevant to the topic of their presentation. In addition, all faculty were instructed to provide balanced, scientifically rigorous and evidence-based presentations.
The staff in the Office of CME at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Mila Kostic, CHCP, FACEHP, Director of CME, Zalman Agus, MD, Senior peer reviewer and Patricia A. Smith, DNP, RN-BC, Nursing professional development specialist of the HUP Department of Nursing Innovation and Development have disclosed that they have no relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity.
The following individuals have disclosed that they have no relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity:
Planning Committee & Presenter Name
Timothy Lucas, MD, PhD / Danielle Becker, MD / Phyllis Dubendorf, MSNPresenter Name
Dallas Armstrong, MD
HanChiao Issac Chen,mdphd / Linda Bagley, MD
Po-Hao Chen, MD / Leah Blank, MD
Yin Jie Chen, MD / Lawrence W. Brown, MD
Robert Clancy, MD
Marissa DiGiovine, MD / Dennis Dlugos, MD / Jacob Dubroff, MD, PhD / Colin Ellis, MD
Mark Fitzgerald, MD / Lawrence Fried, MD / France Fung, MD / Carlyn Patterson Gentile, MD
Chloe Hill, MD / Benjamin Kennedy, MD / Ammar Kheder, MD / Sudha Kessler, mD
Kuei-Cheng Lim, MDPhD / Shavonne Massey, MD / Fadi Mikhail, MD / Philipose Mulugeta, MD
Austin Pantel, MD / Darshan Patel, MD / Jackie Raab, RN / Erin Simon Schwartz, MD
Joel Stein, MD, PhD / Arun Swaminathan, MD / Shawniqua Williams, MD / Katherine Taub, MD
The following individuals have reported the listed relevant financial relationships with commercial interests related to the content of this educational activity.
Planning Committee & Presenter Name Name of Commercial Interest Relationship
Michael Gelfand, MDPhD Pfizer, SK, Alexza, Upsher-Smith, Eisai Research Support
Brian Litt, MD Neuropace Inventor
Kathryn Davis, MD Lundenbeck Advisory Board & Consultant
Relevant financial relationships are those relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit. Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, speaking and teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities from which remuneration is received or expected
Disclosure of Unapproved Uses of Products
Presenter name Product Investigational and/or Off-label Use
Dennis Dlugos, MD v arious antiepileptic drugs used off label in pediatric patients
Shawniiqua Williams, MD AdTech deptH electrodes Functional stimulation mapping